I agree that work is healthier for people than unemployment. I still think that the punitive policies of late are counter to encouraging people off the benefit. If we properly rewarded people for making an effort I'm sure people would start coming off benefits in droves. It would also reduce the crime rate ten fold. Expecting people to happily work for a dollar an hour over and above the extra 70 to 100 dollars per week is cruel, ridiculous and discriminatory. If even Treasury is against it you should revise and rediscover your own humanity.
You make out these people are criminals for being unemployed. What is criminal is to cynically keep people on benefits because it is cheaper than giving people the dignity of employment and then to come up with trite and hollow justifications! That's what they were saying on facebook anyway. "Subsistence" incomes, as Bill Birch called benefits, is not "Welfare" at all. One way or another it encourages and breeds division and crime. I know you were on the D.P.B. and I applaud your success but I'd like to see you live by your policies for more than a month and see how good it is for your mental health. And due to inflation I'm sure your D.P.B. went a lot further than it does today.
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